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American Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen claim they were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro by men posing as Brazilian police officers.
2016-08-14

Several American personnel are suspended after an official report finds that human error was to blame for an airstrike on a Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz in October that killed 30 people. No criminal charges were filed.
2015-11-25

A small plane crashes into a house in the American town of Gaithersburg, Maryland near Washington, D.C. with 5 people dead.
2014-12-8

Peter Theo Curtis, an American citizen, is released by an al-Qaida-linked group after two years in captivity.
2014-08-24

North Korea announces that it arrested an American tourist last month for alleged inappropriate behaviour.
2014-06-6

Prosecutors in the Australian state of Queensland drop manslaughter charges against American surgeon Jayant Patel, who pleads guilty to charges of fraud.
2013-11-15

American 1950s pop singer Patti Page, best known for the "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window" dies in Encinitas, California.
2013-01-1

At least two American Marines and 16 Taliban fighters are killed in a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion airbase in Afghanistan's Helmand province, says a spokesman at nearby Camp Leatherneck.
2012-09-14

Two gunmen shoot dead an American working at a language school in the Yemeni city of Taez for spreading Christianity.
2012-03-18

Two Western journalists are killed in the Syrian city of Homs, American Marie Colvin working for the "Sunday Times" and French photographer Remi Ochlik.
2012-02-22